Unclassified road crash in West Suffolk IP27 on 5 June 2024 at 19:30 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in West Suffolk at 19:30 on Wednesday 5 June 2024. The 50-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jun 2024
- Wednesday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44378, longitude 0.63453, in the IP27 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brandon. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024371452372
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 27 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 2006.
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Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 8 April 2001
202 m awayRef 200137B010649
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 17 August 2013
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Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 19 December 2005
212 m awayRef 200537B024106
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Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1107 in West Suffolk, 18 December 2024
216 m awayRef 2024371533883
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 31 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 50, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2024371452372 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Suffolk road accident statistics for 2024.